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Book, Entrée d’Un Mosquée a Alexandrie, plate 3, from Les Arts Arabes: architecture—menuiserie . . ., 1873

This is a Book.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Smithsonian Libraries as part of Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest, Frederic Church.

It is dated 1873. Its medium is cloth and printed paper.

In the early 1870s, while in Hudson, New York, taking painting lessons with Frederic Church, de Forest had access to this and other chromolithographed books of Middle Eastern design and architecture. These publications helped imbue him with an appreciation of Islamic design and the idea of interpreting exotic motifs for decorating American interiors.

It is credited Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, DC.

Octagonal room of stone or painted stone with arched openings on four sides and a cupula of Moorish-inspired interlace. The central rear arch leads to a receding colonnade while lateral niches display two large neoclassical urns with painted Moorish decoration. Below the side niches are European versions of Turkish ottomans covered with French mid-century textiles. A large pipe stand of Germanic origin occupies the center of the kiosk and an octagonal table sits to the right. Barely noticeable amidst the room's richly patterned surfaces is a man reclining on a central ottoman smoking a hooka, attended by a male servant to his left.

Drawing, Design for a Moorish Smoking Room [Tabagie], ca. 1844
brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on wove paper.
Thaw Collection.
2012-5-2

Elevation of a wall, with a central niche containing a porcelain pagoda mounted on a pedestal. This is flanked with two niches containing Chinese figures in costume. Tablets with Chinese characters on piers between niches. A balcony with trelliswork design above.

Drawing, Design for the West Wall of the Entrance Hall, Royal Pavilion at...
pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white wove paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1948-40-6

The exotic motifs in this Chinese room show the popularity of chinoiserie decoration in the Regency period. The walls are hung with Chinese painted paper bordered in blue and decorated with Chinese characters. Bamboo furniture, the Chinese pane in the transom above the doorway to the conservatory, and the japanned door are also examples of Regency Chinese taste.

Drawing, The Interior of the Chinese Room, Looking toward the Conservatory,...
brush and watercolor, gouache, gold paint, graphite on white wove paper.
Thaw Collection.
2007-27-27

Our curators have highlighted 11 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

Poster, Good News from Iran, Emerging Iranian Artists, 2013

Poster, Good News from Iran, Emerging Iranian Artists, 2013
digital print.
Courtesy of the designer.
s-e-1713

This salon exhibits a riot of Chinese/Japanese motifs. The walls are hung with wallpaper panels decorated with leaves, birds and large ceramic figures. A lantern, suspended from a palmette canopy centered in the ceiling, is designed in a large circular fish scale pattern. The black japannned and cane furniture is typical of the Victorian period. The floor covering appears to simulate tatami matting. Two large seated statues in costume flank French doors on the right. A mysterious seated figure in the left foreground holds a mask to his face with one hand; an unidentified object, perhaps also a mask, is in the other hand.

Drawing, The Japanese Salon, Villa Hügel, Hietzing, Vienna, 1855
brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on white paper.
Thaw Collection.
2007-27-56

Perspective view of a narrow corridor, with a doorway at the far end. In the foreground, the wall leading to the area has a pagoda-like canopy over the entrance. On either side of the door is a pair of columns with trellis-work panels between them. Trellis-work panels cover the walls of the corridor and doors. The very elaborate and highly worked designs appear both on the walls and in the carpet. The abstract treatment of the dragon slithering down the edge of the canopy creates an abstract scrolling pattern seen in other designs. Designed for glass passage.

Original album associated with this collection still exists. See 1948-40-1 accessory

Drawing, Design for a Passageway with Canopy, for Royal Pavilion, Brighton,...
pen and black and yellow-green ink, brush and watercolor on white wove paper,....
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1948-40-65

Its dimensions are

open 43.8 x 63 x 5.7 cm (17 1/4 x 24 13/16 x 2 1/4 in.), to plate 3

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest, Frederic Church.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/48J6B/
Accession Number 13.2012.4
Object ID 35456885